VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, but Vite will remain open source and vendor-agnostic. Cloudflare will invest $1 million in a Vite ecosystem fund to support maintainers and contributors.
UK media frequently presents retired senior military figures as independent experts without disclosing their commercial interests. This creates a misleading impression of impartiality and undermines public trust in media reporting on defence and security issues.

Gaussian Point Splatting

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Researchers propose Gaussian point splatting, a method to render Gaussian splats efficiently. It uses parallel programming and culling to render hundreds of millions of Gaussians in real time.

They’re made out of weights

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Artificial intelligence models are made of weights, not code, and they can hold conversations by multiplying numbers. They don't have a database or look up facts, but instead rebuild everything from scratch each time.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

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The Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System, located in Sausalito, California. It was built in 1957 to study proposed dam plans but is now open to the public for educational exhibits about Bay hydrology.

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

Kiki is a homepage building kit with a simple design philosophy, allowing users to create websites quickly without extensive coding knowledge. It's shareware, available for free or $15 CAD for the full edition with additional features.

Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

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Elixir v1.20 introduces type inference and gradual type checking without annotations, reporting dead code and verified bugs with a low false positive rate. The dynamic() type allows for compatibility and narrowing, ensuring only verified bugs are reported.

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

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AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 300 SaaS tools

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Senior Software Engineer with TypeScript expertise and AI experience is sought for a fully remote role at AccessOwl, a Y Combinator-backed startup revolutionizing SaaS management. The ideal candidate will scale integration infrastructure, develop browser automations, and collaborate with a small team to transform how companies manage their SaaS tools.

The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"

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Windows 8 developers used "Mo" prefix for code names, such as MoSh for the new shell and MoGo for the new Start menu. The "Mo" prefix was used for various components, but it eventually became out of control.

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

The Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot is a secure and symmetrical knot that won't come undone on its own. It involves wrapping loops around each other and feeding them through a hole in the middle to create a tight, closed knot.

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

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Gemma 4 12B is a mid-sized model with native audio inputs, offering powerful multimodal capabilities in a reduced memory footprint. It achieves this through a streamlined architecture that integrates audio and vision input directly into the LLM backbone.

Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

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UC Berkeley computer science classes saw significantly higher failing grades in spring 2026 due to students' overreliance on AI and lack of mathematical preparedness. Instructors point to understaffing and academic dishonesty as contributing factors, with some professors calling for changes in grading policies and student support.

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

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The user tested various LLMs to see if they could reproduce a common class of exploits in a fake React Native app and backend, specifically accessing a user's private reviews through Firebase. Most models were able to find Firebase but struggled to directly access it, with some getting distracted by trying to use Firebase Auth on the API instead.

Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

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Archaeologists are excavating beneath Notre Dame cathedral in Paris to uncover Roman Paris 2,000 years ago. The dig has already found a fourth-century coin and medieval pottery with mysterious markings.

Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

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Anthropic's AI model Claude is anthropomorphized in its constitution, but it's not conscious. The company's goal is to make Claude emit sentences that resemble those of a thoughtful, moral person, but this is fundamentally dishonest as Claude lacks subjective experience.

thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home

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You created a Linux kernel module to turn USB4 ports on AMD mini PCs into InfiniBand devices for AI workloads. It achieves ~95 Gb/s bidirectional RDMA and ~7 µs latency, enabling tensor-parallel inference and FSDP workloads across two consumer boxes.

Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git

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Agent Radio enables real-time collaboration between AI agents like Claude Code and Codex through a lightweight Git-based protocol. This allows agents to exchange tasks, context, and feedback without external servers, with every interaction tracked and versioned.

The ways we contain Claude across products

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Anthropic engineers discuss agent security risks and containment strategies for their AI products, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork. They emphasize the importance of environment-layer defenses, such as isolation and egress controls, to prevent data exfiltration and other security breaches.

I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

I was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, an autoimmune disorder causing brain inflammation. Early treatment with IVIG and steroids helped me recover from severe symptoms including psychosis and suicidal ideation.

Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

Uber limits AI tool spending to $1,500 per month per employee to manage costs. This policy applies to tools like Claude Code and Cursor, hinting at a real dollar value for Uber's AI usage.

Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

A software engineer's union could provide a moral framework for refusing to implement unethical features. Meta's analytics pixel secretly tracked Android users' browsing activity, but Chrome and Firefox have since implemented local-network-access to prevent this.

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Uruky is a private EU-based search engine with no ads, tracking, or analytics, offering personalized results and a copy of the source code after 12 months of paid service. It focuses on search functionality without AI, assistants, or news, prioritizing user privacy and independence.

DaVinci Resolve 21

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DaVinci Resolve is a powerful video editing software that supports Mac, Windows, and Linux, with features like AI region tracking and HDR grading. It offers various hardware panels for color correction, audio editing, and mixing.

When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login

The user is blocked due to an old browser version or suspicious user agent. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use a different browser like archive.org.

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years

A developer claims SQL is the only language that can be learned once and used for 30 years without rewriting its mental model due to its stable syntax and declarative interface. Learning SQL properly is the most valuable investment for junior developers, paying back in every job and stack for decades.

ESP32-S31

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ESP32-S31 is a versatile SoC with wireless and wired connectivity, dual-core RISC-V microcontroller, and robust security features. It supports various protocols, interfaces, and multimedia capabilities for IoT applications, smart displays, and voice-enabled devices.

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living

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Clarke Speicher is a professional book reader who evaluates literature for screen adaptation, reading about six books a week and having read over 6,000 books in two decades. He writes detailed synopses of books, evaluating their cinematic potential and recommending whether they should be adapted into movies or TV shows.

Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts

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A meteor exploded over New England on Saturday, causing a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The meteor was about 5 feet wide and weighed 5.6 metric tons, entering the atmosphere at 42,000 mph.

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

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Let's Encrypt is planning to use Merkle Tree Certificates for post-quantum authentication. This approach adds security without slowing down the web.